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cn coin 43061

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CN Type 19750 🔍

Mint
Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 170-168 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Helios facing, slightly right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΩΣΑΝΔΡΙ ΡΟ
Design
Rose, bud to right.
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Symbol
ram's head (position: at the bottom left) caduceus (position: on the left)
Persons

Magistrate: Sosandri... 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Rhodian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
16 mm
Weight
2.47 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18279108

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer

Literature

Ashton, Pseudo-Rhodian drachms from Samothrace, 1988 p. 130, nr. III, pl. 31, pic. 5-9 ❐

Hoover and Ashton, Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean and Carpathian Seas (Excluding Crete and Cyprus): Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster 2010 p. 74, nr. 317 (reduced rhodian standard)  ❐

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cn coin 43061, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_43061 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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